God made you a saint. All saints need each other.
All Saints Lutheran Church is one congregation in God’s deep and wide and long church. Since 1980, near a busy intersection in northeast Davenport, not far from a mighty river, God’s been making saints and making a place for all kinds of saints to meet and worship God, connect with and serve each other, and grow in love.
Maybe you don’t see yourself as a saint. God does. In Jesus, God finds sinners like us and makes us saints. That’s grace: God, in love, doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves. God did it in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
You are a saint. But saints are not people who are more perfect than everyone else. They are people set apart for the purpose of living Jesus’ resurrected life. Saints are imperfect people living improbable lives. Lives of receiving God’s grace, which spills over into lives of giving praise, doing good, and sharing the good word about Jesus who came to make all people saints.
There are no a solo saints. Just as water is everywhere, connecting everything, so also God uses the water bath called “baptism” to draw us together into a body called “the church.” That’s just what God does: draws all people and all things together in love. God gathers saints for our own good and for the good of the world.
It’s in the name–All Saints–a place for all. Hymn-lovers and praise-singers. Children and adults. People with needs called “special” and people with needs they can’t even name. All Saints is here, feeding hungry saints through a food pantry, through music and worship, through bible study, Sunday School, and every-day acts of ministry.
